I was talking to a high school student this week who said he was having trouble getting together with a friend during the summer.“They have practice each day at 9 a.m., and they don’t finish up until about 1 p.m.,” he said.
Do people vote against their self-interest?
Assuming our world refrains from descending into a fascist hellscape, let’s all imagine our lives in 10 years’ time.Will our lives include an ever-greater role for social media and other invasive technologies brought to you by gargantuan corporations?
“Who runs the country?”I’ve been hearing variants of that question a lot over the last few weeks, mainly in forms like “given Joe Biden’s age and apparent mental decline, can we trust him to run the country for another four years?”For the last eight or nine years, I’ve also heard it a lot, in slightly different forms, about Donald Trump.I visited Google Trends to find out if I’m just imagining increased frequency of that annoying question.
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I’ve seen a few glaciers in my life, once years ago on a trip with our young family when we drove through Glacier National Park and a couple more a few years ago when my son and I made a journey to Kyrgystan, a mountainous country in central Asia.
Not taking a threat seriously can have serious consequences.Filmmaker and documentarian Ken Burns, in his recent commencement address to Brandeis University graduates, provided brilliant insight into threats facing our current Divided States of America.The Atlantic and Pacific have kept us safe, in a sense.
Although I am now a mother and grandmother, when I was in college in the early 1970s I protested against the Vietnam War.
FA few months ago, I registered my two children for two weeks of swimming lessons at our town’s pool.
Last Thursday, Oklahoma state superintendent of public instruction ordered all teachers in the state to apparently violate both state and federal laws separating religion from public schools.